Global Logistics Sustainability SME

The primary mission of the Global Logistics Sustainability SME is to architect and execute the logistics decarbonization roadmap in alignment with corporate sustainability targets. You will be responsible for mapping emission baselines across upstream and downstream transportation and identifying high-impact intervention points across global distribution networks. On an ongoing basis, you will track freight carbon accounting methodologies, build performance dashboards, and translate technical emissions data into strategic logistics decisions. Your tasks will include evaluating alternative fuel alternatives, advocating fleet electrification, optimizing network routing, and collaborating closely with freight forwarders and logistics providers. Longer-term objectives center on embedding low-carbon requirements into procurement tenders and continuous improvement routines. You will help drive broader circular economy and resource efficiency initiatives across global warehouse operations, ensuring sustainability becomes an operational standard rather than an afterthought.

In this position, you can anticipate deep exposure to corporate supply chain decarbonization at massive scale within an international, energy-sector brand. You will master specific logistics emissions accounting frameworks, such as GLEC framework guidelines and GHG Protocol standards for Scope 3 Category 4 and Category 9 transportation. Additionally, the role provides unique insights into emerging green transport technologies, including bio-based fuels, commercial electric mobility, and multimodal freight optimization across diverse regional regulatory markets. You will also refine your capabilities in data visualization, executive stakeholder influencing, and sustainable procurement negotiations.

The ideal candidate holds an academic background in engineering, supply chain management, sustainability, or environmental science, backed by strong professional experience in logistics decarbonization or freight operations. You must display demonstrated familiarity with logistics carbon accounting frameworks and greenhouse gas inventories. Technical prowess with large datasets, dashboard creation, and emissions modeling must be matched with clear commercial acumen. Beyond the numbers, you need exemplary interpersonal skills to influence carrier networks, regional procurement teams, and plant managers across varied time zones and operational cultures.

When applying, tailor your resume to clearly show quantitative achievements where logistics sustainability intersected with operational or cost efficiency. Rather than merely stating knowledge of carbon reporting, quantify previous achievements in ton-kilometer emission reductions, fuel transitions, or carrier scorecards. In conversations, articulate a clear perspective on current freight decarbonization bottlenecks (such as alternative fuel availability, data granularity from third-party logistics providers, or carrier contract alignment) and demonstrate how your technical problem-solving helped overcome similar barriers in past positions.

This role concentrates directly on Scope 3 transportation and distribution decarbonization as part of Castrol’s broader sustainability framework. Given the international footprint of manufacturing and distribution across more than 150 countries, freight movements represent a substantial chunk of value-chain emissions. You will focus heavily on logistics network optimization, warehouse energy efficiency, carrier decarbonization engagement, and the integration of alternative fuel vehicles. You may also touch on secondary packaging, reverse logistics, and circular economy efforts aimed at reducing packaging waste across transit nodes.

A primary hurdle will be managing inconsistent data quality and granularity from a disparate network of global third-party logistics providers and regional haulers. Standardizing carbon reporting across fragmented geographies requires patience, rigorous methodologies, and active supplier capability-building. Furthermore, balancing carbon reduction goals against commercial imperatives like delivery speed, freight rates, and supply chain reliability can provoke friction. Overcoming this will demand pragmatic trade-off analysis, proving that sustainable logistics choices can also unlock operational efficiencies and long-term cost resilience.

A regular day could start with analyzing newly integrated freight emissions data across global distribution routes, identifying anomalous emission spikes or identifying efficiency opportunities. You might spend mid-morning working with data analysts to fine-tune a logistics sustainability tracking dashboard. In the afternoon, you could participate in joint reviews with global freight forwarders and procurement leads to evaluate carrier readiness for alternative fuels or route electrification. The rest of the day may involve drafting business cases for pilot projects in regional performance units or aligning with corporate ESG teams on sustainability disclosures.

Given the strategic importance of value chain decarbonization in the energy and lubricants sector, this position offers significant visibility across both corporate sustainability and global supply chain leadership teams. Successful performance can pave the way toward senior global leadership roles in sustainable procurement, supply chain strategy, or enterprise ESG steering. Working within a prominent BP subsidiary also allows for lateral mobility across broader corporate climate, transition strategy, or operational excellence teams, opening pathways both regionally within India and internationally across global operations.

You will regularly collaborate internally with regional logistics managers, supply chain operational heads, performance units (PUs), procurement managers, and corporate sustainability reporting directors. These interactions focus on aligning operational plans with corporate climate benchmarks. Externally, your primary points of contact will include third-party logistics service providers (3PLs), freight forwarders, carriers, clean transport consortia, and environmental data technology partners who supply emissions tracking tools and market intelligence.